So... can someone please explain to me why a recount in however many states is a bad thing?

Why are recounts in as many states as necessary bad for Democracy and why is it bad for America? Please explain.

Nobody seriously believes that you give a shit about the financial cost. Oh, please...

From where I sit, it looks to me like The Stranger is so cosmically butthurt by Hillary and Goldman Sachs fucking up an election that only they and their hubris could have possibly fucked up, are now siding with the fascist-elect-in-chief purely out of their delusional spite.

I've decided the demise of A. Birch Steen was the beginning of the end of Seattle being a cool place to live. I used to think it was when Sit 'n Spin went away but when The Stranger killed off their ombudsman marks when Seattle had truly crossed the Rubicon.

Why is The Stranger not pimping a total ban on guns in Chicago? Particularly in light of the massive number of shootings there recently. Certainly if there were 'common sense gun control' in Chicago there wouldn't be any gun violence.

To be fair, even a strongly left-leaning fellow like myself has to admit the Democrats are just as heinous as Republicans at gerrymandering.

And for Bernie supporters like myself, who knew all along that the DNC rigged the game for Hillary in any way they could, in which the proof 'coincidentally' came to light just after Hillary had it locked up, proves that the powers-that-be in the Democratic camp are just as corrupt as those who gave us George W. Bush.

It's all about the money. And those of us who don't have it continue to get fucked.

I found The Stranger's coverage of the mass shooting in Munich last week to be particularly interesting... because there was no coverage. None. Bupkus.

I'm guessing The Stranger didn't cover it because they couldn't blame Germany's lax gun control laws or the NRA and because the shooter said he was actively seeking the fame and publicity the media would inevitably give him.

The Stranger simply doesn't like to cover stories that don't fit their agenda.

I've been saying for years that mass shootings are perpetuated by the media (and now social media) who fetishize deranged killers and give them the posthumous glory they so desperately crave. And the Munich shooter proved my point.

As a side note, I'd like to note that guns and semi auto rifles are harder to get than ever before. 25 years ago I remember buying a German H&K 91 over the counter with nothing more than my driver's license and a 4473 form. Why weren't there more mass shootings back then?

It's because Columbine and the media's masturbatory coverage of it hadn't happened yet.